<p>Well, at least the people who get rejected by Ivys usually have some good schools to fall back on.</p>
<p>If I hadn’t gotten so cocky this last week it wouldn’t have hurt as much</p>
<p>hey guys…i got owned by both harvard and dartmouth…im waiting on cornell now, my dream school…let’s see what happens…but like someone said before, we have great universities to fall back on 
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<p>So. I’ve been rejected by Johns Hopkins, Penn, and Princeton so far. I’m waiting on Cornell and Rice. I’ve already been deferred by Rice so I think that is the only one I have some chance with. If not, I have the University of Texas at Austin! I wasn’t that sad, I applied at the elite schools for fun. Rice is the only one I really care about. I’ve told myself, my friend, and now you guys that as long as we tried our best, who cares! ( I know it sounds like something corny your parents would say but its true!) So, hey, who cares! WE’RE GOING TO COLLEGE! and that is all that matters :)</p>
<p>I just went in my backyard and torched a waitlist letter…very therapeutic I would highly recommend it</p>
<p>I was just rejected from Columbia. It was my first choice, my absolute dream school, and I want to die.</p>
<p>i absolutely agree with jjjag07. i mean cmon we’ve got a lot to look forward to. WE’RE SENIORS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! YES!!! we made it thus far we can mos def go on without the ivies. but if u get in, congrats. if not, move on!!!</p>
<p>and i applied to ivies for fun too. i got interviews from them though (wasn’t expecting that) and so i guess thz how my hopes went up…we’ll see…cornell left to go…</p>
<p>Oh well,</p>
<p>Rejected by Penn</p>
<p>Still, I think that I was just chasing the prestige, and more active outdoors school will bode better for me.</p>
<p>Also, surprisingly- my acceptance letter to another college yesterday scared me (I was borderline) and helped me realize that I would get rejected.</p>
<p>Here I go and make the decision between schools in Tenn and Colorado.</p>
<p>yeah i just got rejected from dartmouth, penn, and harvard…and i thought id be really upset. i also got waitlisted at johns hopkins last night. the way i see it (but i have 2 good schools to fal back on-usc and wellesley) life takes certain turns for a reason. everyone on this message board is brilliant, and wherever ANY of us end up, we are gonna do amazing. so i didnt get into an ivy league…big deal. yeah, i dreamed about it since i was 5, but they are really tough and i cant wait to show what i am going to do at another great school. as cheesy as it sounds, it really doesnt matter where you go its what you do where u r. as much as i would love to wave around a degree from harvard, its not what maters in life. all of us will be very, very successful. wow…im dealing with this better than i thought. im gonna go down a chocolate shake now :)</p>
<p>got rejected from my #1, Penn. I worked really hard the past 2 years just for this school, and it makes it seem like I worked hard for nothing…but it’s okay…I’ll apply as a transfer student next year, if I don’t like the school I go to. I don’t think it helps when everyone tells you that you’ll get into a school, it hurts even worse :(</p>
<p>oh, and columbia too! haha</p>
<p>rejected from yale and dartmouth…to be expected tho, n i got into penn state’s med program…so i’m in at a great place anyway so it isn’t as dissapointing</p>
<p>Also, reading the Penn boards- it looks brutal, only a couple out of forty that were admitted. Are the other Ivy’s like this.</p>
<p>I also turned away from I-bankings so Wharton didn’t make as much sense anymore</p>
<p>I was rejected by Wellesley, Bowdoin, Scripps, and Claremont Mckenna and waitlisted by Occidental. Thankfully, I got accepted into USC today, but as a spring admit. I’m still waiting for a couple more decision, most of which will probably be rejections.</p>
<p>damn columbia too</p>
<p>I got rejected by Bowdoin. But wat eva Bowdoin is mad boring any ways.</p>
<p>So I was rejected by Minnesota Twin Cities. In December. And my parents, at the time, did not realize that a small envelope meant a rejection - so they were really excited, holding this thing that I knew meant I was rejected. While I was in bed. Oh, and I’m from Wisconsin.</p>
<p>Anyways, just got my Fordham acceptance packet, with sweet FA.</p>
<p>princeton rejected me. i got into dartmouth; i’m probably going there, and i’m really excited about that… but i still have to cry now, even though i knew this was probably going to happen. i’ve been happy, and i’m going to be happy later, but i need this moment to be heartbroken because i’ve put so much of myself into all this.</p>
<p>Waitlisted at Johns Hopkins (My dream school since 9th grade)
Deferred (Interim Dec.) from Rice, still waiting on RD
Rejected from Harvard
Predicting rejection from Georgetown and Cornell
Fortunately, I have Baylor U to fall back on with a nice financial package :)</p>
<p>I agree with many on this thread. It really does seem like the majority of us wasted working our asses off in high school to be where we are today, rejected and confused. But honestly, thats not the case. The character and work ethic we have developed will help us succeed not just in college, but in life. Think of the big picture. Ungraduate Study is a mere 4 years of your life. That’s less than 5%! Who is going ask your SAT score once you’re in college? By the same token, what boss is going to care if you went to Harvard or Baylor, as long as you’re the best you can possibly be. Personally, I thought I’d go into some form of depression, rather I took it quite better than expected (not torching, as a previous person mentioned lol)…I know this all sounds cheesy right now, but in my opinion, its the plain truth…Seniors '07!!!</p>
<p>My support goes out to anyone who was rejected recently, a lot of my friends are taking the Duke rejection letters really hard, but they’ll get through it, as I’m sure all of you will.
I have a really really corny story, if you don’t care or don’t want to hear it, then don’t read, but I’ll tell it anyway.
Last week I was extremely upset over a stupid forensics competition. I compete in speech and it’s my senior year, it was my last competition, and for the third time, I missed qualifying for nationals. I didn’t qualify because somebody decided to challenge my piece, and I got disqualified, somebody came down and told me that I couldn’t win, that I couldn’t compete, and that I was out of the competition, I guess the same way some colleges are telling you that you can’t go there, and you’re misconstruing it as them telling you that you’re not good enough, or you won’t be successful. I was really down, and I was lectured with the story of one of my relatives. She’s an extremely upbeat woman, and even though her husband passed away with cancer when she had just given birth to their two kids, she has always been nothing but kind and caring to those around her. She grew up in a very impoverished area in Iran, and came from a very poor family that barely had enough to eat. One night, when she was about our age, the roof and half of the wall collapsed in her home right by her bed. My grandma called her to ask how everything was, and she said “chodaroh shokr,” which means “Thank God.” Half of her home fell apart and they had barely enough money to fix it. But she was safe. Her family was safe, and that’s all she ever asked for.</p>
<p>So if you get rejected, thank God, and if you don’t believe in God, then thank the college itself. You better be thankful that the worst part of your day, or week, or if your lucky, your year, is getting a letter from a college telling you that though you can’t study there, but you can get an education elsewhere. You better be thankful that you’ve received enough of an education to even be able to apply to college. There are thousands out there who would do anything to open the books that you have read and learn the things that you have been taught.
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t be upset, because you probably are and probably will be. But, I just thought I’d give some perspective. Thinking of things that way helped me out, so hopefully at least one person found it helpful. And, if you think I’m an idiot and reading that wasted your time, that’s fine, good luck with everything.</p>